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		<title>At The Range</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 05:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was good to get back out to the local pistol range this afternoon and shoot.  I have always enjoyed shooting and have missed the self competition as well as the stress relief that punching holes in targets brings me. The range, to which I belong, is private and has a limited number of members this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=575&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Characters</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hardest aspects of writing is putting together believable interesting characters. Even though I may have an idea for the story line in mind I don&#8217;t always have a firm lock on the characters description or what their individual personalities will be like. I seem to alway piece together each character from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=572&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 00:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday was a treat for me, I got to spend the entire day with my 4-year-old grandson, Murphy.  We spent the day working in the garden, playing with a bucket of toy soldiers, and an Iron Man figure.  This bright little guy is a bundle of nearly uncontrollable energy that, at times, needs carefully [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=566&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 02:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I Have Returned&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 03:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something I have learned over my 60+ years is that nothing in life is guaranteed.  During my years I have enjoyed testing myself against some of the best soldiers the US Military has to offer, all branches, and I held my own.  Now I am suffering, it seems, from going to places no sane person [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=558&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education and Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the past few days I have had the pleasure of corresponding (via WordPress) with Colleen Anderson, a woman I respect and admire as a writer; the subject being the  methods of the &#8220;Tiger Mom&#8221;  in educating children. I believe that children need to have a firm parental hand in making sure they are learning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=547&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Back&#8230; Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult, at times, to produce the words and sentences that make up any piece of writing. Every assignment, paid for or not, must be done with care and professionalism or it will not be taken seriously. I have been a writer for a great many years, some of what I wrote during those years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=546&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>End of Another Weekend</title>
		<link>http://soldier2writer.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/end-of-another-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been another quiet weekend, one in which I finished editing the stack of short stories I had ready for submission.  The story editing and rewriting took the better part of two days and I still have some little changes to do to two of the stories, these I will make tomorrow morning before I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=540&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the Oregonian</title>
		<link>http://soldier2writer.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/letter-to-the-oregonian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently sent an opinion letter to The Oregonian newspaper about another police shooting, it is as follows: &#160; The article &#8220;10 shots from police hit homeless man&#8221;, by Maxine Bernstein, Oregonian January 29, 2011, made me wonder about the training of our Police Officers.  The article states that the two officers fired 12 shots [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=538&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thermodynamics of Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was a student at The Evergreen State College I came across the following. &#8220;The following is a real question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term.  The answer by one student was so &#8216;profound&#8217; that the professor shared it with colleagues, &#8230;.&#8221; &#8220;Bonus question:  Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=532&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Conferences</title>
		<link>http://soldier2writer.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/writing-conferences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to pass along (if you do not already have this) a small character list that I picked up at a writers&#8217; conference a few years back. Putting together a believable character (This is not an all-inclusive list, it is just where I start): 1.  Who am I? 2.  Where am I going? 3. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=501&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Bookstores</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I am having a problem writing I find that taking a trip to my nearest bookstore  will give me whatever I need to get back behind the keyboard.  I use my writing to get past the problems, the mental waste that is PTSD, and to make sense of what is happening on any given [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=499&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future Generations</title>
		<link>http://soldier2writer.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/future-generations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[What might have been...]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have turned into my father, I look at some of the members of the next generation and feel a building nausea. Please understand that I grew up in the 1960s, the &#8220;make love not war&#8221; generation, the &#8220;hell no we won&#8217;t go&#8221;, and the&#8221; hey, hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=494&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Streets of the City</title>
		<link>http://soldier2writer.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/the-streets-of-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Missed a Post yesterday.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time I will take a walk on the streets of Portland to replenish the oxygen in my blood and to gain a fresh perspective of life in the city.  Todays trip included a short walk and a bit of travel on the MAX Blue Line  (train) from SE Division St to Pioneer Square. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=487&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Idiot on the Road</title>
		<link>http://soldier2writer.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/another-idiot-on-the-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between yesterday and today I have had two encounters with &#8220;Road Fools&#8221;.  Todays encounter is with a bicyclist, one who, if he continues with what he did today, will not be long for the streets of Portland or this world. Todays entry into my &#8220;File of Fools&#8221; is a gentleman who had spent lots of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=482&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mud Puddles and Nasty Drivers</title>
		<link>http://soldier2writer.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/mud-puddles-and-nasty-drivers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early this morning, after dropping my wife off at her job, I witnessed an act of maliciousness that is not common in the Portland area.  A truck driver went out of his way to drive through a road-side puddle to intentionally splash three school children, who were standing on the sidewalk waiting for a bus. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=478&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunny, Warm Portland&#8230; ?</title>
		<link>http://soldier2writer.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/sunny-warm-portland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Southern Oregon and enjoyed cold, wet, foggy winters followed by hot, dry, sunny summers&#8230; no kidding, I really enjoyed the weather. Many years later after traveling to almost every continent and experiencing every form of weather I retired to Southern Washington, then finally Portland, Oregon to write. I must have had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=473&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MLK Day</title>
		<link>http://soldier2writer.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/mlk-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["I have a dream..."]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year when this day rolls around I think back to the 1960&#8242;s and the decade that marked my generation.  The ten years between 1960 and 1969 were filled with televised reports of the Vietnam war, this to include nightly American death tolls. (My generation was the first to be able to watch an ongoing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=471&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just a note&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://soldier2writer.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/just-a-note/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The power of the imagination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I will have my anthology (Short Stories) ready to go to the publishers by the end of the month&#8230; then we&#8217;ll see if they are happy with what I sent. wish me luck. Filed under: Writing Tagged: Short Stories, The power of the imagination<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=465&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commitments</title>
		<link>http://soldier2writer.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/commitments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1-Sierra-Gulf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keeping promises to others is far easier than keeping them to yourself, ie&#8230; deciding to stay in school. For students who are looking at the first year of college it seems like an eternity, especially if this is the first time away from home.  Oh, I know the first thoughts are those of freedom from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soldier2writer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3608990&amp;post=457&amp;subd=soldier2writer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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